In most countries, improvements in income have come hand-in-hand with improvements in health. Health is both human capital itself and an input to producing other forms of human capital. Being unhealthy reduces productivity and the incentives to invest in human capital. Taken together, these mechanisms imply that poor health and lower income (Bleakley 2009).

In today’s world, gaps in wealth have grown shockingly wide. Billions of people linger at the bottom, denied their human rights and prospects for a better life. At the top, resources and privileges accrue at explosive rates, pushing the world ever further from the vision of equality embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics Act No. 12 of 1998 provides for the Minister responsible for Planning to direct ‘that a Census betaken’ on any matter specified in the Act. This was the legal basis for conducting the National Population and Housing Census(NPHC) 2014. The long-term objective of the National Population and Housing Census (NPHC) 2014 is to ensure availability of

Population projections are essential for planning at the national, regional and district levels in the private and public sectors. In order for planners and policy makers to efficiently allocate the scarce resources, they need to know the future size and structure of the country’s population as well as their characteristics.

There are more young people between the ages of 10 and 24 today than at any other time in human history. And in some parts of the world, not only do the numbers of youth grow, but so does their share of the population. In some countries, more than one in three is a young person

Development is linked in various ways to population change. The transformation in demographic regimes from high to low death and birth rates, the demographic transition can be added to the list of structural changes constituting development: indeed, in terms of its direct effect on human well-being and its social and economic implications, it is arguably the most important of those changes.

The present report provides a demographic perspective on how the world has changed over the past 20 years. The world has witnessed many profound social, economic and political changes since the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994. Few factors will shape the future global development agenda as fundamentally as the size, structure and spatial distribution of the world’s population.

UBOS Conducted a National Population and Housing census in 2014, and the Provisional results were published. These gives the number of households and Population by Administrative Area down to the SubCouny.data Processing is currently on going